UCA News

The UCA Honors College will host Benito Benedicto as he presents ?Transforming the Way Americans Think About Africa? during the Honors Hightable at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14 in the Honors College Forum, McAlister 302.By and large, the news media in the United States portray Africa in a negative light. In his presentation Benedicto will dispel myths and misconceptions associated with the … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas Honors College is proud to announce the fall schedule for its biweekly series of recent and significant foreign films. The series features important films representing the diversity of global cinematic culture. The films will be presented in the Honors College Forum (McAlister 302), in video and DVD formats. Seating is limited. The films in this series are … [Read more...]

Free Benefits Series tickets for the upcoming UCA Public Appearances season opener, Toxic Audio, are now available at UCA Ticket Central. This five-person a cappella vocal band will perform in Reynolds Performance Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 29 and 30. Each UCA student, faculty, staff, retiree and College Square resident may obtain two free tickets to either show by … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas Counseling Center is offering a Hurricane Katrina Support Group for UCA students, faculty and staff.The first group meeting will be at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13 in the Student Center, Room 202. For more information, please call the Counseling Center at 450-3138. … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas College of Fine Arts and Communication will soon expand its campus residency program with public presentations at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. The series, titled ?The Arts and the Presidency,? will showcase appearances by William J. Ivey, Ellen Gilchrist and Denyce Graves. All events are free and open to the public and will take … [Read more...]

Following is a listing of presentations, publications and accomplishments submitted by UCA faculty and staff: J. Arthur Gillaspy, Jr., Department of Psychology and Counseling, was recently notified that two of his articles had been accepted for publication: Bailey, R. E., & Gillaspy, J.A. (in press). ?Operant psychology goes to the fair: Marian and Keller Breland in the popular press, 1947 - … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas Honors College held its annual alumni association meeting on the weekend of July 22-23. Honors College faculty, staff, and about 150 alumni attended the event themed "Celebrating Norb" to honor Dr. Norbert O. Schedler, founding director of the Honors College, who retired last spring.Events kicked off Friday night with a pizza party and social mixer. Saturday?s … [Read more...]

The University of Central Arkansas is offering free tuition and fees to all Arkansas residents who were enrolled for the fall semester at Tulane, Xavier, University of New Orleans or Southern University. For out-of-state residents who were affected by Hurricane Katrina, UCA will waive the out-of-state tuition charge. ?We are admitting these students as quickly as possible,? said UCA President … [Read more...]

More than 60 faculty turned out, Thursday, for the first Instructional Development Center (IDC) luncheon of the year to find out from nationally-recognized educator and author Dr. Robert Sherfield how to motivate and retain more students.Sherfield began his presentation by telling one student?s story of poor high school grades, college remediation and near failure in college before becoming … [Read more...]

University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin announced several accomplishments of the university and made new commitments to faculty and staff during two fall addresses on Tuesday. Hardin announced that enrollment at UCA has reached another all-time high with more than 11,000 students. Nearly 4,000 of those students are residing in university housing; and UCA has 2,500 freshmen ? the … [Read more...]